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The Fight Against TotalitarianismThe Fight Against Totalitarianism
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For many European countries the end of World War I was the beginning of revolutions at home, economic depression and the rise of powerful dictators driven by nationalism and territorial expansion. Two powerful 20th Century
dictators were Stalin & Hitler
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The peace settlement that ended World War I (the Treaty of Versailles) failed to provide a “just and secure peace” as promised. Instead Germany grew more and more resentful of the treaty that they felt was too harsh and too punitive.
The Versailles Treaty (above on crutches) took a beating in the U.S. and abroad
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The victors installed many new democratic governments in Europe after World War I including the Weimar Republic in Germany.
Most governments were overwhelmed from the start and struggled economically.
A German woman is seen here in 1923 feeding bundles of money
into the furnace. . .why?
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Exchange rates, US Dollar to Mark, 1918-1923
Source : Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder, Oxford : UP 1997, p.5
Date Marks for $1.00
Date Marks for $1.00
Jan 1918 Jan 1919 Jan 1920 Jan 1921 Jan 1922 Apr 1922 July 1922
Oct 1922 Jan 1923 Feb 1923
5.21 8.20
64.80 64.91
191.81 291.00 493.22
3,180.96 17,972.00 27,918.00
Mar 1923 Apr 1923
May 1923 Jun 1923 July 1923 Aug 1923 Sept 1923 Oct 1923 Nov 1923 Dec 1923
21,190.00 24,475.00 47,670.00
109,966.00 353,412.00
4,620,455.00 98,860,000.00
25,260,000,000.00 2,193,600,000,000.00 4,200,000,000,000.00
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This Konstanz 50 Milliarden (million) Mark overprinted on 5 Mark illustrates the extent
of the inflation in Weimar Germany
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After Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Joseph Stalin took control of the Soviet Union. His goals included both agricultural and industrial growth
Stalin hoped to transform the USSR from a backward rural nation to a major industrial power .
Stalin (right), shown here with Lenin, ruled Russia with an iron fist for
nearly 30 years
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In the first year of his “5-year plan” Stalin placed all economic activity under strict state control. By 1937, Stalin had achieved his goal. The USSR was the world’s 2nd largest industrial power This 1932 poster championed the
Soviet Defense industry
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In his desire to purge (eliminate) anyone who threatened his power, Stalin was responsible for the deaths of 8 –13 million of his own people. Millions more died of famine caused by his economic policies.
Labor camp workers in Siberia -- Stalin sent millions of political
prisoners to labor camps
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By 1939, Stalin had firmly established a totalitarian state in the USSR.
In a totalitarian state the government suppresses all opposition and has strict control over the citizens who have no civil rights.
In totalitarian states citizens are expected to treat the dictator with adoration
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While Stalin was consolidating his power in the Soviet Union, Benito Mussolini was establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy. Mussolini seized power, taking advantage of high unemployment, inflation, and a middle-class fear of Communism .
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Mussolini was a strong public speaker who appealed to Italian national pride. By 1921, Mussolini had established the Fascist Party. Fascism stressed nationalism and militarism and placed the interest of the state above the interests of the individual.
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Despite the fact that King Emmanuel II had already agreed to turn power over to Mussolini (Il Duce), he staged a mock takeover by marching his black shirts through the streets of Rome in October, 1922.
Mussolini marches on Rome, 1922
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Meanwhile in Germany, Adolf Hitler followed a similar path to Mussolini. At the end of World War I, he was a jobless soldier drifting around Germany. In 1919, he joined a struggling group called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis). (Despite its name the party had no ties to socialism.)Hitler, far left, shown
during WWI
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Hitler’s ability as a public speaker and organizer drew many followers. He quickly became the Nazi Party leader. Calling himself “Der Fuhrer” (the leader) he promised to return Germany to its old glory.
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Hitler rose to power in part by criticizing the Versailles Treaty as unfair and humiliating to the proud German nation.
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Hitler explained his beliefs in Mein Kampf (My Struggle). He wanted to uniteall German-speaking people under one grand Empire. He wanted racial purity. “Inferior” races such as Jews, Slavs, and all non-whites were to form a work force for the “master race,” blond, blue-eyed “Aryans.”
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future! -- Adolf Hitler, speech at the
Reichsparteitag, 1935
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Another element of Hitler’s grand design was national expansion. Hitler called it “Lebensraum” or living space
Hitler believed that for Germany to thrive it needed more land at the expense of her neighbors.
Hitler posed an immediate threat to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria,
France, Belgium and the Netherlands
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By mid-1932, the Nazis had become the strongest political party in Germany. In January of 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor (Prime Minister)
Once in office he quickly dismantled Germany’s democratic Weimar Republic and replaced it with a totalitarian government.
Hitler was appointed chancellor by the aging President Hindenburg of
the Weimar Republic
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Once in power, Hitler established the Third Reich or the Third German Empire. The first was during the Middle Ages and the Second came with the Unification of Germany in 1871.
According to Hitler the Third Reich would last 1,000 years.
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Halfway around the world, nationalistic leaders were seizing control of the Imperial government of Japan. Like Hitler, they desired living space for their growing population
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The 1930s were years of fear in Japan, characterized by the resurgence of right-wing patriotism, the weakening of democratic forces, domestic terrorist violence (including an assassination attempt on the emperor in 1932), and stepped-up military aggression abroad.
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Emperor Hirohito’s reign lasted from 1926-1989. Hirohito followed tradition and chose a name for his reign. It was called "Showa", or "Radiating Peace.“
However, he began a military buildup with several attacks on China and a dream of Pacific domination.
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In 1931, Japan attacked the Chinese province of Manchuria. It swiftly captured the province which is about twice the size of Texas.
Japanese soldiers in Manchuria
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In the early 1930s both Japan and Germany quit the League of Nations.
Hitler then began a huge military build-up in direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. By 1936 Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, a German region bordering France and Belgium that was demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
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Rhine River
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In 1936, a group of Spanish army officers led by General Francisco Franco, rebelled against the Spanish Republic
A Civil War ensued as Hitler and Mussolini supported Franco’s fascists while the western democracies remained neutral.
Spanish Loyalist at the Instant of Death by Robert Capra, 1936
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Franco’s victory in 1939 established him as fascist leader of a totalitarian Spain. The Spanish Civil War led to a closer relationship between the German and Italian dictators. Hitler and Mussolini signed an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Franco admires a military parade in Madrid: 500,000
died in the Spanish Civil War
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Picasso’s Guernica captured the brutally of the Spanish Civil War and the Fascist government
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With memories still fresh from World War I, most Americans believed the U.S. should not get involved in the increasing aggression in Europe . Some critics believed banks and manufacturers were pushing for war solely for their own profit. Critics called them “merchants of death.”
Adolf Hitler congratulating Dr. Krupp Von Bohlen of the great Krupp Munitions organization for the part he and his company have played in German successes. Krupp's supplied part of the sinews of war for the blitzkrieg machine.
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FDR’s polices in the early to mid 1930s reflected a desire to remain out of the growing conflict in Europe.He recognized the
USSR diplomatically in 1933.
He lowered tariffs.He withdrew armed
forces from Latin America.
FDR and Secretary of State Cordell Hull study European political affairs carefully
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Congress also pushed neutrality. It passed a series of Neutrality Acts.The first two acts
outlawed arms sales or loans to nations at war.
The third act outlawed arms sales or loans to nations fighting civil wars.
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After Japan renewed attacks on China in 1937, FDR sent arms and supplies to China.
He got around the Neutrality Acts because Japan had not actually declared war on China. FDR promised in a speech in Chicago to “take a stand against aggression.”
FDR speech in Chicago, October 5, 1937
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Late in 1937, Hitler was anxious to start his assault on Europe. Austria was the first target . The majority of Austria’s six million people favored unification with Germany. On March 12, 1938, German troops marched into Austria unopposed. A day later, Germany announced its union with Austria.
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Hitler then turned to Czechoslovakia. About three million German-speaking people lived in the western border regions of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. Hitler built up troops on the border . . .
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Then, just as an attack on Czechoslovakia seemed imminent, Hitler invited French leader Edouard Daladier [Da-la ΄-dee-aye] and British leader Neville Chamberlain to meet with him in Munich. (Italy was there too.) In Munich he promised that the annexation of the Sudetenland [Su-date΄-ten-land] would be his “last territorial demand.” Chamberlain and Hitler at the
Munich Conference, 1938
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From left to right; British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, French Prime Minister Eduard Daladier, German Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler, Italian leader Benito Mussolini and Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano at the Munich Conference, September 1938
Munich Conference, 1938Munich Conference, 1938
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This agreement turned over the Sudetenland to Germany without a single shot fired
Chamberlain returned to England and announced,
“I have come back from Germany with peace with honor. I believe it is peace
in our time.”
•Chamberlain and Daladier believed Hitler and signed the Munich Agreement in September of 1938
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Critics of Chamberlain included English politician and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill who said Europe had adopted a dangerous policy of appeasement (i.e., giving up principles to pacify an aggressor).
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Despite the Munich Agreement, Hitler was not finished expanding the German Empire
On March 15, 1939, German troops poured into what remained of Czechoslovakia.
At nightfall Hitler declared that "Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.”
German troops invade Czechoslovakia in March of 1939
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Hitler next turned toward Germany’s eastern neighbor Poland. Many thought Hitler was bluffing because an attack on Poland surely would bring the USSR, Britain, and France into war. As tensions rose over Poland, Stalin shocked everyone by signing a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler. Once bitter enemies now Communist Russia and Fascist Germany vowed to never attack each other
Partners: Hitler & Stalin
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As day broke on September 1, 1939, the German Luftwaffe (air force) roared over Poland raining bombs on airfields, military bases, railroads and cities. German tanks raced across Polish countryside.
BRUTE FORCE: Germans marched through the streets of Polish towns and
adorned buildings with swastikas
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After the Polish invasion, Britain and France declared war on Germany.
Too late to save Poland, the Allies focused on getting troops to the front in time to stop Germany’s Blitzkrieg strategy (i.e., Lightning War with fast moving tanks and powerful aircraft).
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While Hitler was blitzing western Poland, Stalin was attacking the east.
Stalin and Hitler had secretly agreed to divide Poland.
Later in 1939, Stalin attacked and defeated Finland while Hitler conquered Norway and Denmark.
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After occupying Poland, Stalin annexed the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Hitler, meanwhile successfully attacked the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg
Time was running out for the Allies
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The Maginot Line, a series of trenches and fortifications built along the eastern border of France, proved ineffective as Hitler’s troops and tanks detoured through the “impassable” Ardennes wooded ravines in Northeast France.
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Italy, allied with Germany, invaded France from the south as the Germans closed in on Paris from the north. France surrendered in June of 1940. After that, a French General named Charles de Gaulle fled to England and set up a French government in exile.
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Europe 1940- Britain Goes It Europe 1940- Britain Goes It AloneAlone
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In the summer of 1940 Germany launched an air attack on England.
The goal was to bomb England into submission.
Every night for two solid months, bombers pounded British targets: airfields, military bases and then cities.
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The Royal Air Force fought back bravely with the help of a new device called radar
With radar, British pilots could spot German planes even in darkness
The British Spitfire Plane was instrumental in downing 175 Nazi planes on September 15, 1940.
Six weeks later, Hitler called off the attack on England.
A Spitfire dogs a German Domier Do-17 as it crosses the Tower of London
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• On April 7, 1933 Hitler ordered all non-Aryans removed from government jobs.
• Thus began the • systematic campaign
of racial purification that eventually led to the Holocaust – the murder of 11 million people across Europe (more than half of whom were Jews).
Title: “Away with him” - The long arm of the Ministry of Education pulls a Jewish teacher from his classroom.April 1933 (Der Sturmer Issue #12)
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Jews TargetedJews Targeted
• Jews were the central target of the Holocaust
• Anti-Semitism had a long history in many European countries
• For decades Germany looked for a scapegoat for their problems
• Many Germans blamed Jews for their difficulties
Sign says: "Germans! Defend yourselves!
Do not buy from Jews)
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Jews in Germany were subject to increasingly restrictive rights. In 1935 – Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship, jobs and property.
Also in 1935 Jews forced to wear bright yellow stars to identify themselves.
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On November 9-10, 1938 Nazi Storm Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany
Over 100 Jews were killed, hundreds more were injured, and 30,000 Jews arrested
Afterward, the Nazis blamed the Jews for the destruction
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Hundreds of Jewish homes and businesses were torched during Kristallnacht
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As a result of increasing violence, many German Jews fled the country
However, few countries were willing to take in Jewish refugees
The U.S. accepted 100,000 refugees including Albert Einstein, author Thomas Mann, architect Walter Gropius and Theologian Paul Tillich
Einstein
Gropius Tillich
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Many Americans feared Jews would take jobs at a time when unemployment was already high.One example of the indifference to the plight of the German Jews can be seen in the case of the St. Louis
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This German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. The U.S. coast guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship returned to Europe.
More than ½ of the 943 passengers were later killed in the Holocaust
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In 1939 only about 250,000 Jews remained in Germany. But other nations that Hitler occupied had millions more. Obsessed with his desire to “rid Europe of Jews,” Hitler imposed what he called the Final Solution.
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The Final Solution – a policy of genocide that involved the deliberate and systematic killing of the entire Jewish population – rested on the belief that Aryans were superior people and that the purity of the “Master Race” must be preserved
Hitler was responsible for the murder of more than half of the
world’s Jewish population
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Hitler condemned to death and slavery not only Jews but other groups that he viewed as inferior, unworthy or as “enemies of the state.” This list included Gypsies, Slavs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Africans, Chinese, homosexuals, handicapped, mentally ill and mentally deficient.
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Group Deaths
European Jews 6,250,000
Soviet prisoners of war 3,000,000
Polish Catholics 3,000,000
Serbians 700,000
Germans (political, religious, and resistance)
80,000
Germans (handicapped) 70,000
Homosexuals 12,000
Jehovah’s Witnesses 2,500
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Jews were also ordered into dismal, overcrowded ghettos in various Polish cities
Factories were built alongside the ghettos and people were forced to work for German industry.
Many of these Jews were then transferred to concentration camps (labor camps) deep within Poland.
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Hitler’s program of genocide against Jews took place primarily in six Nazi death camps located in Poland. The final stage began in early 1942.
The Germans used poison gas to more quickly exterminate the Jewish population. Each camp had huge gas chambers that could kill as many as 12,000 per day.
Dachau gas chamber
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Images From a NightmareImages From a Nightmare
Some Of These Images Are Disturbing
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The main entrance of Auschwitz Extermination Camp, with its infamous motto "Work Makes One Free"
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Buchenwald prisoners in nearby woods just before their execution (1942)
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Jewish women from the Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. Some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line
before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators.
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A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution (1942)
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Over 2 million children were killed during the Holocaust
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Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz
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A truckload of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp
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At Dachau concentration camp, two U.S. soldiers gaze at Jews who died on board a death train
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A Nazi about to shoot the last Jew left alive in Vinica, Ukraine
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Dachau survivors on the day of liberation
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In September of 1939 (invasion of Poland), Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a “cash & carry” provision that allowed nations to buy U.S. arms and transport them in their own ships.
America sold weapons to Allied nations for cash
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The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) were making great progress across Europe. After France fell to Germany in 1940, FDR hoped to avoid a two-ocean war by scrambling to support Britain. He provided 500,000 rifles and 80,000 machine guns and numerous ships.
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AXIS POWERS 1942
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Roosevelt got Congress to increase spending for national defenses and reinstitute the draft. FDR ran for and won an unprecedented third term in 1940. The majority of voters were unwilling to switch presidents during such a volatile time in history.
FDR pushed for huge defense spending
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Defeated Wendell Willkie in the 1940 Presidential Election
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To support Britain, FDR established a “Lend Lease Plan” which meant the U.S. would lend or lease arms to nations whose defense was vital to America .America was becoming the “Great Arsenal of Democracy.” supplying weapons to fighting democracies .
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In June of 1941, Hitler broke the agreement he made with Stalin in 1939. FDR began sending lend-lease supplies to the USSR.
German U-boats traveled in “wolf packs” at night torpedoing weapon shipments headed for the Britain and the USSR. FDR approved U.S. warships to attack German U-boats in self-defense.
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Late in 1941, FDR and Churchill met secretly and agreed on a series of goals for the war.
Among their goals were: Collective security Disarmament Self-determination Economic cooperation Freedom of the seas
This Declaration of the United Nations was signed by 26 nations.
FDR, left, and Churchill met aboard the battleship U.S.S. Augusta in
Newfoundland waters
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While tensions with Germany mounted, Japan launched an attack on an American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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The surprise raid on Pearl Harbor by 180 Japanese planes sank or damaged 21 ships and 300 planes. The losses constituted more than the U.S. Navy had suffered in all of World War I. The next day, FDR addressed Congress and the United States declared war on Japan and three days later Germany and Italy.
… a date which will live in infamy